eBay Names Winner of Utah Design Contest

Data Center Knowledge (Dec 9 2011) Construction

1. The team of Winterstreet Architects & AHA Consulting Engineers has won a competition to design Phase II of a major eBay data center near Salt Lake City, Utah, beating out 20 other design teams that submitted plans for the modular facility, known as Project Quicksilver. The outcome of the competition was announced today on the Data Center Pulse blog. The new facility will be a “greenfield” construction project optimized for modular (containerized) data centers, and will build upon the designs being implemented in eBay’s first modular project in Phoenix, Arizona. Winterstreet and AHA previously teamed with EDI on the winning entry in the design contest for eBay’s Phoenix project. Other finalists in the Quicksilver competition included Advanced Design Consultants; the team of Deerns & Gensler; KlingStubbins; and M+W Group, which each received a design fee for their efforts in reaching the final round. (Read Full Article)

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